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REEKS, Kerri

Jun 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Military, South Australia, War Fiction

cage of war by kerri reeks
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ISBN 978-1-923386-87-7
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Cage of War

Can they escape the horrors of war, or will they consume them forever?

Captured by Viet Cong in late 1960s during the Vietnam War, Australian soldier James ‘Ned’ Kelly is imprisoned in a bamboo cage in the Mekong River, with fellow captive Brady. They’re eventually ‘rescued’ by a Special CIA Covert team.

They soon discover the rescue is part of an elaborate, corrupt and clandestine war tourism operation – ‘Tiger Hunts’, where wealthy Japanese businessmen pay to hunt & kill real VC soldiers. Kelly & Brady reluctantly join the ‘Tiger Hunts’, ultimately uncovering dark & suspenseful secrets, including war crimes, political assassinations, & drug trafficking tied to the covert teams. A catastrophic ‘Tiger Hunt’ leaves Kelly, Brady, & one Japanese ‘Tiger’ as the only survivors; they’re rescued & taken to a US Hospital ship to recover.

Years later, back to Australia, Kelly is settled on a small farm in the Adelaide Hills. A deadly chain of events is sparked, targeting Kelly, his veteran friends & loved ones. The fallout threatens to also expose the surviving ‘Tiger’, now a prominent Japanese politician, & the rogue CIA operations behind the ‘Tiger Hunts’.

To stop the violence escalating, Kelly teams up with old colleagues to expose the truth, bringing the dark past to light via exposure in the international media.

Kerri Reeks author

About the author

KERRI REEKS was born in Adelaide in 1953 and spent his formative years in Broken Hill, Cockburn, and later Mount Gambier. At 18, he enlisted in the Royal Australian Army, qualifying as a Sapper in the Corps of Engineers. He trained in combat engineering, earthmoving construction, minefield clearance, and demolition-though he did not serve in Vietnam. After his military service, Kerri forged a diverse career. He became a multi-award-winning landscape gardener and later owned and operated both a restaurant and a hotel. For over 30 years, he has worked as a consultant in the oil and gas industry, travelling to more than 60 countries. During this time, he completed a Graduate Diploma and a Graduate Certificate in International Disaster Management. Drawing on his global experiences and the many cultural intersections he encountered along the way, Kerri researched and wrote Cage of War, a novel inspired by the Vietnam War. He now lives in the Adelaide Hills on a small acreage with his partner and their dog, Beau. When not consulting in the energy sector or working on his next novel, he enjoys landscaping and tending to his property.

COCKS, Jon

Feb 24, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Historical Fiction, South Australia, War Fiction

Angel Of Aleppo CVR
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ISBN 978-1-923386-03-7
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ISBN 978-1-923386-86-0
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Angel Of Aleppo

 

Can faith survive the Armenian Genocide?

SOLDIERS MURDER HER MOTHER. THEY FORCE HER FROM THE FAMILY HOME.

Anoush must endure a death march through unforgiving desert, as Armenian refugees perish all about her, some of the million-plus whose blood forever stains the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the souls of their descendants.

Courageously keeping her small group of neighbourhood women together, Anoush endures the brutish guards driving a massive column of women, children, and old men south from Anatolia through Aleppo to the Mesopotamian desert. She learns to nurse against all odds in a city overfl owing with diseased and starving refugees. She becomes the Angel of Aleppo.

In the years that follow, can she fi nd the will to be the woman her mama raised her to be? Can she summon the strength to care?

From Anatolia to Aleppo and beyond, through the outrages and injustices of the Armenian Genocide, Angel of Aleppo is about losing everything but the healing power of love.

‘Angel of Aleppo is an emotionally charged historical fi ction novel that feels like it’s a true story… Jon Cocks manages to draw the historical parallels between the Armenian genocide and the Shoah without making it feel forced or out of the narrative… riveting historical drama that captures the essence of a dark moment in history and shows how love can still be pulled out of the rubble of our past.’ Literary Titan

ANVIL, Michael

Dec 15, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Thriller Fiction, War Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923088-21-4
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The Limehouse Chronicles

Part 1

THE MOMENT YOU START READING YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN.

Step into a riveting WWII saga as Peter Wayman and Anne Colyer’s lives are upended by the German Luftwaffe during ‘The Blitz.’ Follow their journey from London’s East End to the nuclear disarmament marches of the 1950s, where they face an unforeseen future.

As Peter, a Royal Navy Signals officer, is drawn into the secretive world of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) by Captain Smith, they embark on daring night flights to Southern France. Their mission: to establish escape lines for downed pilots and refugees, obstructing the Nazi war machine. From the wartime Savoy Hotel in London to the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean, follow their perilous adventures, entangled in a web of American bases, ‘Cold War’ spies, and unexpected alliances. Immerse yourself in the fascinating first part of The Limehouse Chronicles, an unforgettable journey through history in Michael Anvil’s debut masterpiece.

DISCOVER THIS CAPTIVATING SERIES IN THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES.
FROM THE DARK EDGES OF SECRECY, TREACHERY AND WAR.
COLLUSION IS SURVIVAL AND DECEPTION IS THE GAME.

HOLT, Jeremy

Nov 22, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Victoria, War Fiction

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by Jeremy Holt

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ISBN 978-1-923088-17-7
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Everything That Stands

Dare you push against the doors?

Will you brave the darkness to find your light?

September 3, 1978.

At the height of the revolutionary war for Rhodesia, twin brothers face a harrowing ordeal when their passenger plane the Viscount Hunyani is struck down by a SAM-7 missile.

In escaping the wreckage, Baron and Blaise Black, co-incidental players in a conflict they neither desire, nor fully comprehend, witness a calculated act of brutality that sets them on a relentless and hazardous journey through unforgiving African bush.

The consciousness of the older twin becomes a prism through which the complexities of purpose, truth, and conscience are explored, against the backdrop of civilians forced to confront unbearable choices.

With this debut novel, the author invites readers to extend their search for meaning beyond the doors of the known, to the undiscovered country that beckons to us all.

Jeremy Holt self-published author

About the Author

Jeremy grew up in Durban, South Africa, during the turbulent, apartheid-era Sixties, and countercultural Seventies. For forty years, he has worked in various educational communities across the globe as a teacher, mentor, lecturer, sports-coach, residential leader, and consultant.

Apart from guarding against his life-narrative becoming an idiot’s tale, Jeremy nurtures a love of family, along with an admixture of literature, philosophy, writing, rugby, and swimming. He is married to Anne, a theatre-nurse manager, who spent her youth in Salisbury, Rhodesia. They are based in Hidden Valley, north of Melbourne, Australia, where their search for meaning continues.

Jeremy’s debut novel, Everything That Stands, is the first book of a larger conceptual framework, The Baron Black Trilogy.